10 Wrestling Gimmicks That Went Way Over Everyone’s Heads

6. Right To Censor (Mormons)

Right To Censor
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What People Thought: At the height of Attitude era excess, Stevie Richards went formal, started calling himself Steven, enlisted the help of an ex-porn star, pimp and violence-obsessed correctional officer, turned Ivory against the WWF's women and relentlessly preached about how the company needed to be cleaned up. It was blatantly a dig at the PTC (Parents Television Council).

What They Actually Were: Many fans figured out the PTC parody, but there was more to Richards and his Right To Censor gang than that. Their outfits, for a start, were deliberately black and white; in the conformist world of RTC, there was no room for shades of grey. The white shirt, black tie and black slacks combo, and their ludicrously strait-laced views, also made them seem like cliched mormons.

That particular element of their gimmick wasn't as obvious as the stuffy, suited anti-WWF theme though. The company were very careful not to tread too far into religious territory too, which is interesting given wrestling's questionable fascination with the subject.

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